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Where to run small jobs that use only CPUs?

November 5, 2021
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CISL recommends running small jobs that use only CPUs on the Casper cluster’s high-throughput computing (HTC) nodes. Casper has 64 HTC nodes specifically for running small batch jobs.

It also has:

More shared resources than the Cheyenne share queue
Here’s an example script for running an HTC job on Casper.

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